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Isn't it usually assumed spacetime is not discrete. At the very least there is no proof to say everything is discrete. Just because the universe can do computat
by meroes 6y ago
Isn't it usually assumed spacetime is not discrete. At the very least there is no proof to say everything is discrete. Just because the universe can do computations doesn't mean it is a state machine.
- rantwasp 6y agostate machine: you have a state that you can describe. you get input, you transform the state, you maybe output something. state transition can also be viewed as input. so i believe that everything is a state machine. everything
- rantwasp 6y agonope. if you want to have your mind blown away look into Wolfram’s cellular automata and more recently his physics project
- mhh__ 6y ago> nope Wolfram isn't a crank but his graph idea is interesting and not much else at the moment.
- rantwasp 6y agoIMHO the man is a genius and the idea is brilliant. it’s the only place i’ve seem a reasonable interpretation of the uncertainty principle.
- mhh__ 6y ago> reasonable How so? Have you done enough quantum mechanics to comment? I don't think I have
- rantwasp 6y agonobody is "doing" quantum mechanics per se. they are applying predictions from a theory that has been around for a while and those predictions work well enough in narrow domains to be useful. i know enough to understand some of the fancy math behind it, but one thing to keep in mind is that what people think of when they say quantum mechanics is the mathematical model we're working with, not the real thing. here, take a look for yourself: https://www.wolframcloud.com/obj/wolframphysics/Documents/some-quantum-mechanical-properties-of-the-wolfram-model.pdf https://www.wolframcloud.com/obj/wolframphysics/Documents/so...